Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,184, Dennis Fernald, Continental Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Fernald, Dennis Elizabeth
N 24184
CONTENTS

Maine, 2082
Elizabeth Fernald widow of Dennis Fernald
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who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 & 1818, and who died on the 1 January 1837, of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Grant of the Inf y commanded by in the Maine Troops time for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 70 Dollars and Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1837. 1 January 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of March 1839 and sent to Jon a Hammond, Esq r , Maine
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $108.75 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39 25.00 $133.75
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D m Curby Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 9.

N: 18333 Maine
Dennis Fernald of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Grant of the R. G. Art. commanded by ————— in the Maine Troops time for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 50 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. day of August 1833 and sent to J. Hammond Clerk Maine
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 100.00 Semest. allowance ending 1st Sep. 1833 25.00 $125.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E, Vol. 1 Page 16

Declaration of Col. Smith Amended -

State of Maine } ss. York County 6
On this sixth day of September 1838 personally appeared before me the Hon. William A. Hayes Judge of Probate for said County Elizabeth Fernald a resident of Eliot in said County aged 77 years who, being, first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting Half pay and Pensions to certain Widows." That she is the widow of Dennis Fernald who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States as will appear by his original Certificate and declaration now in the pension office at Washington. She further declares that she was married to the said Dennis Fernald on the twenty fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty that her husband, the aforesaid Dennis Fernald died on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but was married the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four AD , at the time above stated and that she was never afterwards married
Witness
Wm. A. Hayes Vice Chancellor
Elizabeth
X Fernald Mark -
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year above written Before me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate I certify the said Elizabeth Fernald by reason of her great age & bodily infirmity is unable to travel & attend Court Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate -3

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State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
ON this Seventh day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Hon William H. Hayes Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at York in & for the  county of York  Dennis Fernald a resident of Eliot in the county of York and State of Maine aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I enlisted in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in May 1777 for the term of three  twelve months under Captain Grant of South Berwick — Billingings of Halloway was Lieutenant in said Company the names of the other officers I do not recollect and marched immediately to Providence State of Rhode Island and served in said Company until the term for which I had enlisted had expired but received no written discharge I was in no engagement with the Enemy during this service, but was at the time Providence while the British were in possession of that place a part of Rhode Island and was doing duty in said Company when a party of our men took the British General Burgoyne prisoner in the night and brought into our Camp and I was the first century placed over the said Prisoner after being so brought in I was born in Hilary which is now Eliot in the year AD 1758 My age is on the record of the Town of Hilary .
I was living at Hilary when I entered the service and have lived ever since the Revolutionary War in said Hilary I went as a substitute for Moses Hanson of said Hilary who is now dead.
I do not recollect that there were any Regular or field officers of any kind at the place where I was then as there were only two Companies on that station.
Jona Hammond son of William Hammond both of Eliot in said County are a respectable person and have always known me and know that I have the reputation of being a soldier in the Revolution. There is no person that I know of, that can testify to my service as a soldier.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Dennis Fernald
WE, Jona Hammond  Esq , a clergyman, residing in the town of Eliot and William Hammond Esq , residing in the town of Eliot hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Dennis Fernald — who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jona Hammond Esq  William Hammond

I went as a substitute for Moses Hanson of said county who is now dead
I do not recollect that there were any Regular or field officers of any kind at the place while I was there as there were only two companies on that station.
Jonathan Hammond son of William Hammond both of Eliot in said county are respectable persons and have always known me and know that I have the reputation of being a soldier in the Revolution.
There is no person that I know of, that can testify any views against me.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Dennis Fernald
WE, Jonathan Hammond In brg , a clergyman, residing in the town of Eliot and William Hammond In brg , residing in the town of Eliot hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Dennis Fernald who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jonathan Hammond In William Hammond
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the beforenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Hammond In brg who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Eliot, and that William Hammond , who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Eliot and an credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, & that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of the applicant.
I, Wm. Cutter Allen , Register clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Dennis Fernald for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Seventeenth day of August , eighteen hundred and thirty-two .
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate

Elizabeth Donald
36 50
(Widow of Dennis) (2082)
Me
Ad July 1838
M c 1780 decedent
1. 1837
Allan from pr $50
name from Jan 1
1837
Mr. Hamma
Eliot
Me

I Daniel Jones Clerk of the Town of Putney in the County of Worth and State of Maine hereby certify:—That Dennis Bernal and Elizabeth Stacey both of Putney were Married August the twenty fourth One Thousand seven hundred and eighty as appears by the Original Record of the Town of Putney
as appears by said records
I Daniel Jones Clerk of the aforesaid Town, of Putney hereby certify, that the above is a true extract from the original records of said Town, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible letters and figures, as follows:
Dennis Bernal and Elizabeth Stacey Married August 24 th 1880
I Daniel Jones above named, depose and say:—That I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Putney
in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Putney with the exception above named, as certified by me. Daniel Jones Clerk for the Town of Putney Sworn before me, Josiah Hammond Justice of the Peace

Dennis Fernald
10/25/0
of entitled
Top
251.50
11/11/19

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Yorke within and for the County of York , on the first Tuesday of July , being the fourth day of July , and by adjournment  said month , from day to day, on the  day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth day of July , in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court ,
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County , Dennis Fernald , aged sixty two years, resident in Eliot in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Fernald , in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Edmund Phinney in the line of the State of Massachusetts , on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the first day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10,250 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Sworn to and declared, on the first day of July , A. D. 1820.
Deponent.
Benjamin Greene, P. J.  Present the foregoing to the said Court. Asst. Clerk.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
27½ acres of land — house unfinished inside. 1 barn 4 steers 3 years old. 2 steers 2 years old. 4 cows. 2 calves — 12 old sheep. 14 lambs — 2 small sheep — 1 small horse — 1 pair ox wheels. 1 ox plough & 1 harrow. 3 old pine tables — 3 chairs — 1 old chest — 1 old looking glass —
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me
who, by occupation am a labourer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Betsy my wife 59 in health   Margery my daughter 27 supposed to be in a decline   Hiram my son 19 of a weakly constitution   Miriam my daughter 16 healthy   Samuel my son 11 slender constitution  
Dennis Gernaldy
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York ss. Daniel Sewall the county of York
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit , within do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is two hundred fifty one dollars and fifty cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall,
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 1778 18 mos. Pvt John Farnold Benjamin N. J.   May 1780 18 mos. Grant          
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, _____
Residence at date of application, _____
Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____
He mar. Aug. 24, 1770 Elizabeth ... He was allowed ... application ... Sept. 6, 1838 ... 27 yrs. His ... 1900 ...
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Hist to Boston Mass
WIDOW, &c.
Nov. 10-1900 Nancy W. Bernard
1915 Feb 20 Hist. Soc. John C. Fagellgren.
File No. 24184
Elizabeth Sternfeld wid of Dennis Sternfeld Pr. Maine Troops
Act July 7 th 88
Index: Vol. A , Page 234
[Arrangement of 1870.]

See letter to Pensioner 26 6th 1882
10.250
Maine
Resolute
of East in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hirney of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year .
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1814
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of May 1814 and sent to Benj. Greene Esq. South Berwick, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 11 31 09. 08 Semi-annual all'ce ending 1st Nov 1819 - 40. 00
$137.03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
York County -

Sir:-
Please send record of Pension Rec of David Fernald enlisted as Private Dec 2 1775 in Capt Tobias Fernald's Co M c John L. Trefethen Wareham Mass

Dennis Trnald Private Col. Thinney's Regt. Mass. Line 1775 to 1776
Dec. 1 st April 1815
Schmitt

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } ON this first day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Dennis Gernald aged sixty years resident in Eliot in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War:"—
That he the said Dennis Gernald in the month of December A.D. 1775 enlisted as a private soldier under Capt. Tobias Gernald of the Regiment commanded by Col. E. Phipps of the Massachusetts line in for the term of twelve months. That he continued to do his duty in said Company and Regiment until the twelve months for which he enlisted had expired, when he was honorably discharged at the  then  Fort  George
There is proof of the foregoing declaration made by the above named Dennis Gernald, Samuel Brooks & Reuben Hancome his  creditable witnesses personally appear and being by me first duly sworn according to law, they upon their oaths do say that the above named Dennis Gernald did serve in the continental army under Capt. Tobias Gernald of Col. Phipps Regiment the full term of twelve months as he has testified that they were in the same Company & Regiment with the said Dennis Gernald the whole of said term, & knew that he did his duty faithfully and was honorably discharged after the expiration of the term of his enlistment.
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj. Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Dennis Gernald did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
first
day of April
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj. Greene

Dennis Sernald of Eliab, County of York, and State of Maine , and in the  State of  Massachusetts do hereby certify and declare on oath, that I enlisted in the United States service of the of the Revolutionary war, in the latter part of the year 1775, in Capt Tobias Sernalds Company of Infantry, in Col. Phinnys Regiment, continental line, for the term of one year and joined said Company at Cambridge in Massachusetts and continued at said Cambridge until after Boston was evacuated by the Army and marched on the 7 th of August following with said Company and Regiment to Pictou in the State of New York and continued at said place about three months and then marched with said Regiment and Company to Fort George in said State at which place we tarried about one month at which place I think Captain Sernald was appointed a Major in said service and left the Regiment for to enlist new Recruits for the Army, I was his waiter at that time and went with him, he proceeded to Boston and thence to Hiltley in the District of Maine and was discharged at said Hiltley on the 25 th day of December by the said Tobias Sernald, having in said service thirteen months, but have not yet my discharge —
I further say that for this service I received a Certificate from the War department under the acts of Congress of the 18 th day of March 1818 and was stricken from the Pension Roll on account of my property, the notice of which I received from said department dated July 22 nd D 1820, which Certificate and Notice I herewith enclose
Dennis Sernald
York ss August 9 th 1832 Then personally appeared Dennis Sernald in the above declaration and made oath to the truth of the statements therein contained. Before me
John Hammond Esq. } Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Yale fs. I William Allen Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that Jonathan H. Hammond is a Justice of the Peace for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal official this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Allen Allen, Register of Probate.

Deposition of Moses Hammond for Elizabeth Sturtevant

I, Moses Hammond Esq of Eliot County of York and state of Maine of lawful age depose and say that I was well acquainted with Dennis Fernald late of Eliot who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that Elizabeth Fernald of said Eliot is the widow of the aforesaid Dennis Fernald and that she was never married after the death of her aforesaid husband Dennis Fernald which took place on the first day of January 1837 Moses Hammond
State of Maine } ss York County } September 6 th 1838
Then personally appeared the above named Moses Hammond Esq of said County who is a credible person and disinterested and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Moses Hammond Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that
William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Jonathan Hammond is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight .
John Skeele } Register of Probate } York County.

Affidavit of Geo L. Little for Dennis Small

I George Libby of Eliot County of York & State of Maine aged seventy three years testify & say that I have been well acquainted with Dennis Loring of Eliot ever since my childhood and also that I am knowing to his having been a Soldier of the Revolution and I also remember of his having taken the place of Moses Hanson of said Eliot as a substitute for him in the Continental Army and I recollect of hearing him relate many times the circumstances of his having been at Rhode Island & being present when the British Gen l Dorcoth was bro't into camp and of his being the first Company placed over him after Loring bro't into camp George Libby
York ss May 6 th 1833 Then personally appeared George Libby of Eliot a credible person and disinterested and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Jon s Hammond
Custodian of the Leav
State of Maine
York ss I William Cutter Allen Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Hammond is a Custodian of the Leav for said County as above stated and and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal office this sixth day of May A.D. 1833.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Reg. Probate

I Parker Foster of Eliot in the County of York and State of Maine a Revolutionary Pensioner agree twenty years of sound mind & memory testafy and say that Dennis Simonds of said Eliot in said County served in the Revolutionary war for the term of three months commencing in the spring of the year A.D. 1777 in Capt. Gants Company of Infantry at Providence Rhode Island that I served in the same company with the said Dennis Simonds during said term, that I was personally acquainted with him at that time and have been acquainted with him ever since that time and have personal knowledge of his services aforesaid. Parker Foster
York ss 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Parker Foster a credible person & disinterested and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me — Jonathan Hammond Esq.
Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Yorh ss. John Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county, hereby certify that Jonathan Hammond is a Justice of the Peace as above stated and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal official this seventh day of January A.D. 1833.
John Cutter Allen, Register of Probate

Dennis Fernald
Eliot

War Department, 10.250
PENSION OFFICE,
July 22. 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Dennis Fernald,
Elliot
Ware

Communication from the War Department respecting Dennis Thomas

War Department, Pension Office 26 October 1832.
Sir,
The papers in support of your claim to a pension under the act of 7. June 1832. have been examined
Your original declaration made in 1818. states a service of one year in Col. Whitney's Regiment. Before the additional services, now stated by you for the first time, can be allowed, they must be satisfactorily proved, by two credible witnesses, according to the Regulations of this Department.
Your papers are herewith returned.
I am, respectfully Your obedt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Mr Dennis Fernald, Elliot, Maine.

Dennis Fernald Me ad- 1818. When paid?
Paid to Sep 14. 1820. at $ 8. per mon & then stricken off. H H S L. A. '9.

Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next,
at the Cumberland & Bk. Portland
Maine
Look for the witness of Danny Arnold's virtue in Melitia at Rhode Island
W. S. [unclear]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 10 th of March 1818
Dennis Fernald late a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Dist: of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the First day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
H. Calhoun